There are at least 40 known species of flying fish. Beyond their useful pectoral fins, all have unevenly forked tails, with the lower lobe longer than the upper lobe. Many species have enlarged ...

Some fishlike vertebrates had already begun to evolve limbs by around 400 million years ago: They were called "lobe-fins," with fins that looked like fleshy paddles, and they had lungs as well as ...

The coelacanth has gills similar to those of fish living at the depths in which ... these fishes' paired lobe fins are supported by the same basic bones as your arms and legs.

In a shallow area near the water's edge, something happened that would forever change life on our planet: a fish from the class of lobe-finned fishes uses its pair of powerful pectoral fins to ...

DESCRIPTION: The splittail is a relatively large member of the minnow family that grows to more than 12 inches. Splittail have an elongate body, a blunt head, and an upper tail fin lobe distinctively ...